A good source of information for Oracle on Linux is the Oracle technet
discussion forum:
http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/htdocs/discussion_index.htm
You have to be member of the Oracle technet to access this page, but
this shouldn't be a probleme, membership is free.
I had many problems installing 8i on Linux (SuSE 6.2), too, but succeeded
eventually, the main points are:
- There's a patch (8.1.5.0.1) which fixes a lot of things, including the
missing
library for netasst (Of course you can run the listener without configuring
your
network, but it won't dispatch any services, so you can't access the DB
from another machine).
You should download this patch from the Oracle technet !
- If you install the server only, the client software is not installed
properly, so,
if you want to use any client software on the same machine, install the
client, too.
- Oracle recommends blackdown's 1.1.6v5 because they did their tests with
this
distribution (I guess). I installed everything using 1.1.7v3 and everything
went fine
as well.
Good luck,
Ulf
> Aaron Mulder wrote:
>
> > Then, dbassist failed to launch from the install routine with
> the
> > error "not enough arguments". When we tried to run it, it simply died,
> > which we traced to the fact that all the tools use java -native which
> does
> > nothing if native threads aren't installed (why not default to green?).
> > With suitable editing to .java_wrapper and jre, we got it to run using
> > green threads.
>
> This is curious. At first I tried using the IBM JDK and the runInstaller
> script died complaining that the jre did non support the "-green" option
> (IBM does not support it indeed). Then I downloaded and installed
> blackdown's 1.1.6v5 and run it successfully and I am positively certain
> that I did NOT install the native thread package. Infact, as the
> installer ran I was watching it using "top" and there was only one java
> process.
>
> > HOWEVER, we are unable to configure Net8. The tools like
> > "netasst" and others (I've forgetten the others we tried) die with an
> > "Unable to load library" error. The library in question (libnjni8.so)
> is
> > distributed by Oracle (see $ORACLE_HOME/lib), but with size 0 (both the
> > installed version and the version in the JAR on the CD). The directory
> is
> > in our LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so I suspect it's just the "size 0" issue.
> > This means that we can't connect to the instance other than
> > through "connect internal", which is pretty useless. We took a swing at
> > configuring a listener.ora by hand, but can't get past an error about
> "no
> > valid addresses specified"...
>
> Don't know what is going on here, but I did not run netasst, I just ran
> "lsnrctl start" and now have a listener running and listening on port
> 1521/tcp. I also created a tablespace and a user and used "sqlplus
> user/password" to create a few tables. But frankly I don't know if this
> is a symptom that I have Net8 correctly installed and configured. I will
> try to run netasst later to see how it goes.
>
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